How does your media product represent particular social groups?

O ur media product represented particular social groups in a familiar fashion. For example the main character in our film is a young adult male, he is seen skateboarding in the first action shot of the film. This is a representation of a vague subculture (pictured below left), as the act of skateboarding has connotations of belonging to this community, which in its self is extremely diverse and is know for its range of ages and types of people.

Perhaps more sterotypically the character is wearing a hooded sweatshirt (pictured below), not as a symbol of rebellion or youth violence but as a realistic depiction of what young people wear in 2011, as they are warm and relatively cheap. The main character is clearly anxious throughout the openng two minutes of the film and when the only other character in the film shouts at him from off screen he runs away very quickly. We felt that this was interesting as it was a comment on how teenagers still get frightened and are not as steel nerved as they would perhaps like to seem.

Furthermore, the character is shown to be alone the entire time, this conflcts with the image portrayed in the media of youths hanging around in large groups and not being to spend time on their own.